Italic Fonts in Internet Explorer, Safari aiya everywhere?

chocolates-xed SG

ya, my laptop is windows xp media center edition running on a core 2 duo
it wasn't italic till i restarted the computer then when it restarted, i saw the "Type your name" in the welcome screen italic, i opened IE and safari and saw that the words were bold and italic..

anyone know how to solve this problem?

thanks ppl

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Does it look like this?

chocolates-xed SG

mine is the total opposite
[IMG]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p278/nickelcola92/Snap1.png[/IMG]

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Very small. Got big one?

chocolates-xed SG

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Hmm... weird. Can't seem to replicate your problem.

What did you do before this problem occurs?

chocolates-xed SG

restart the computer and it was after some automatic update that i restarted

LatecomerX SG

I'm guessing that the Arial font files on your computer have been mixed up or corrupted. Try this solution, at your own risk:

1. Do a backup of the font files that are related to Arial in the folder "C:\WINDOWS\Fonts" by selecting the files and right-click drag them into a folder, then choose Copy.

2. Download this SFX and extract it to the specified folder.
http://dl.latecomerx.com/Arial.exe

3. Restart your computer and let us know whether it worked for you. There's still a 22 MB Arial Unicode font file that is not included in the SFX, but uploading it is quite a chore. I'll upload it if the above doesn't work for you.

chocolates-xed SG

this is the result, i also did reboot my com and try again and the same result as the 1st happened, so what next?

chocolates-xed SG

hey mr LatecomerX!! thanks loads, it worked perfectly!
(:

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Ah, learnt something new.

How did you figure out it was a corrupted font?

LatecomerX SG

I took a close look at his screenshot, and referred to the CSS stylesheet used on sgForums. The text which are in italics have the Arial font applied whereas the links and other text which appeared normal are using Verdana, and maybe some other fonts.

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Oh... I went the same route as you. But... I did another thing. Wrote a CSS file and load it. That didn't fully replicate the problem though.

LatecomerX SG

Tried the following CSS properties already?

http://latecomerx.com/(lab)/test/italics/

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Yup. Strangely, I didn't replicate the problem. Surprised

Edit: Figured my mistake. Embarassed